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Would you buy an essay if you could 100% get away with it?

Yes.
10
15%
No.
53
80%
I would if I could afford it.
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5%
 
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I write assignments for other people all the time: I think it's interesting how easy it is to pass 'softer' courses. And getting paid in sex is neat.
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So, you prostitute your writing skills? You whore!
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I find it incredible how many people write essays for other people. I'd rather eat cat food than write an essay if I don't have to.
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The scenario is that you can guaranteed get away with buying the essay - no chances of backfire? I'd still say no.

Being a decent writer, the only time I'd resort to something like that is if I had horrible time constraints and just couldn't get it done. Even so, it's not that difficult to pound out an acceptable piece in 15 minutes.

Buying an essay would be a waste of money in that sense, and the thought of becoming that much more lazy and inclined to plagarize SCARES me. It's not just the monetary cost, you're losing your edge in writing... something I would give up for very few things in this world.
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Honesty is important to me. Enough so that I've actually told people that I'll lie to them if it's necessary. I don't cheat on schoolwork. I'd take a 0 before I let myself buy someone else's work. And I can say that with quite a bit of certainty, considering things I've done in the past.
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Attempting to define my revulsion to plagairism is difficult; buying somebody else's work and passing it off for my own revolts me, and I'm not sure why. It's probably because I enjoy writing too much; in any case, if I can put together a B+ or an A essay off the top of my head, I don't see why I should spare myself the mental exercise. But then, I'm the kind of guy who reads books on algebraic structures for fun, so that sort of intellectual masochism is probably not a general sentiment ...
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ALI_G, your friend is a retard. He can crank out a top-ranking paper in such a short amount of time, and so effortlessly, yet he throws away 60 bucks on a stupid essay? That's good money, goddamnit! He should be buying Rome Total: War and the expansion with that kind of cash.

Slap him for me, will ya?
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Broomstick wrote:So, you prostitute your writing skills? You whore!
It's all worth it when you complete a 40% assignment in a few hours for hot blondes in marketing. First year law, art analysis, history, all the soft stuff is easy.
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wolveraptor wrote:ALI_G, your friend is a retard. He can crank out a top-ranking paper in such a short amount of time, and so effortlessly, yet he throws away 60 bucks on a stupid essay? That's good money, goddamnit! He should be buying Rome Total: War and the expansion with that kind of cash.

Slap him for me, will ya?
It's funny you should mention that because I used to be the owner of R:TW until I lent the game to him ... and he lost the installation disk. To be honest I never used to play it much anyway because it was a bit too demanding of my system, and my friend did offer to buy me a new copy ... but I don't think he would have been too happy if I would have called him to get me a new copy.
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Stark wrote:
Broomstick wrote:So, you prostitute your writing skills? You whore!
It's all worth it when you complete a 40% assignment in a few hours for hot blondes in marketing. First year law, art analysis, history, all the soft stuff is easy.
Whilst I might have a chance at getting 40% on some other subjects like English or Business Studies, I would still have to do quite a bit of research before I could write at length on something I have never done before. I would also like to see how you would fare on my last history essay, 'How sucessful was British counter-intelligence in tackling the Soviet espionage threat between 1919 and 1939' ... considering that all the primary sources you need are in one location - Cue in London at the National Archive - you may struggle to construct more than a few vague paragrapghs. If you could bullshit your way to 40% on that, then hell, I'll give you some sex myself! ;)
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no essay writing? not get caught? FUCK YEAH.
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ALI_G wrote:Whilst I might have a chance at getting 40% on some other subjects like English or Business Studies, I would still have to do quite a bit of research before I could write at length on something I have never done before. I would also like to see how you would fare on my last history essay, 'How sucessful was British counter-intelligence in tackling the Soviet espionage threat between 1919 and 1939' ... considering that all the primary sources you need are in one location - Cue in London at the National Archive - you may struggle to construct more than a few vague paragrapghs. If you could bullshit your way to 40% on that, then hell, I'll give you some sex myself! ;)
I meant 40% of overall grade, not a 40% mark assignment. I write distinction stuff! :)

The advantage of writing for first and second years is that the coursework is extraordinarily general, and requires little specific knowledge. First year law is a good example: read gov.au documents, regurgitate in essay form - instant 80%. Business/marketing assignments I get are usually stats, which is amazingly easy. I've never tried writing high-end specific stuff, because I work on a risk/reward system, and I don't think anyone is hot enough for me to take on something that difficult! :)
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